Test 1 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

ok so the grouse just dumps a whole duvet of feathers on them, proper mad innit

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grouse · What happens: dump · To what, where: whole duvet

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 dumps	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 dumps	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grouse	det
4	grouse	grouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumps	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 dumps	advmod
6	dumps	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 duvet	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 duvet	amod
9	duvet	duvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumps	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 feathers	case
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 duvet	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feathers	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 innit	amod
16	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 innit	amod
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 duvet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	present	the grouse	a whole duvet of feathers on feathers and proper mad innit					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent duvet=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

the sealskin dwarfs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwarfs	det
2	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dwarfs	compound
3	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the children, George and Jane, who had been buried under the feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 George	punct
4	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 children	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Jane	cc
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 George	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 buried	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 buried	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 buried	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 buried	aux:pass
11	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 George	acl:relcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feathers	det
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · perfect · passive		George and Jane		the feathers			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under feather=Destination

Option 3

the two children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 children	nummod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

George and Jane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Jane	cc
3	Jane	Jane	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 George	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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